Disloyalists Quotes & Sayings

There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap. — Alec Baldwin

The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great. — Milton Mayer

Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These autocrats, these tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims-they are the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight. — Eugene V. Debs

All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle's sake with your mind completely on what you must do. With this knowledge there is no waster even in the first attempt. There are no impediments. — Meera Uberoi

That's the downside of being in love. It exposes your weaknesses. You're easy to manipulate and to take advantage of. — Nicole Huggins

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been. — Margaret Atwood

Just as everyone in a tribe praying to a volcano god would reinforce the idea that there is a volcano god, so begging politicians for favors reinforces the idea that there is a rightful ruling class, that their commands are "law," and that obedience to such "laws" is a moral imperative. — Larken Rose

Stolen kisses require an accomplice. — Texas Bix Bender

Of all the wars that have taken place wince then, none has endured so long as the conflict between knowledge and belief. For centuries now, knowledge has attempted, unsuccessfully, to supersede belief. But the entire clash stems from a misapprehension of the nature of belief. We can't not believe; and we won't ever know everything. We know this much: knowledge remains an endless advance toward an end point that endlessly recedes. — Adam Leith Gollner

I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown. — Jane Austen

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908) — Auguste Rodin